4/19/18 Report - Historic Maps For Research Online. Sound of Gold Coin. Famous Nazi Sub Found.

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Part of Master Map for 1915 Fort Pierce.

I found a very good website where you can find old maps.  The one above is a 1915 Fort Pierce map.  Below is a closer view of part of one of the sections.

Detail View of A Small Section of Downtown Fort Pierce.

This section shows The Crystal Theatre, which is where the Sunrise Theatre is today.  Notice also the old Fort Pierce Hotel.

You can find this old map and many more by using the following link.

http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/1622568/Sheet+001/Fort+Pierce+1915/Florida/

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What does 1915 Ten Dollar Gold sound like on an Ace 250?  Here is the answer.

I know you can't see the coin with the glare, but it is on the napkin.

It sounds like a coin, but how does the ID meter read since the meter does not have a Ten Dollar Coin reading?  It rang up as between a penny and dime, which is the lower level of the coin range on the meter.

By the way, I think you can see a Walking Liberty half off to the side in the video.  It was correctly identified as a 50 cent piece by the inexpensive detector.

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Source: FoxNews.com link below.

A German submarine from World War II-- rumored to have been used to transport Nazi leadership to South America following the war-- has been located nearly 73 years after being lost at sea.

Denmark’s Sea War Museum discovered the U-3523 roughly 403 feet below sea level. The submarine was found off the coast in Denmark’s northernmost town of Skagen, nine miles west of where it was reportedly sunk by Britain, according to the paper.

The front of the vessel was buried in the sand and the stern jutted out, according to a report by The Sun published on Tuesday.

The depth of the sub’s final resting place, however, makes it difficult for researchers to reach.
Gert Normann Andersen, the museum’s director, told the paper that the discovery dispels rumors of a potential escape that stemmed from the failure to locate the vessel after it was sunk by a British B24 Liberator attack on May 6, 1945..

Here is the link for the rest of the article.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/04/19/missing-wwii-german-submarine-found-after-nearly-73-years-lost-at-sea.html

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Source: MagicSeaWeed.com

We'll have a day or two of smooth surf before an increase comes.  

I'm always happy with both.  The smooth water is good for hunting in shallow water, and the rougher surf is good for shifting things around a bit.  

Happy hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net

4/15/18 Report - Ten Dollar Indian Gold Piece. Older Coca Cola Bottle.

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1914 Ten Dollar Gold Coin Find.

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Yesterday I showed some vintage Coca Cola bottles from Fort Pierce.  Here is an older Coca Cola bottle from Fort Pierce.  This would be called a straight-side bottle.  You can easily see why.

Straight-Side Coca Cola Bottle.

Around the top of the shoulder it reads, FORT PIERCE, FLA., then below that, REGISTERED 7 OZ.

Notice the bubble in the glass.

I assume it had a paper label at one time.  They don't very often survive, especially if they rolled around in the water like this one did.

Around the bottom edge it reads, PROPERTY OF COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO.

Bottom Edge of Same Bottle.

It wasn't easy to get good photos of this one.  On the inside was iridescent residue and the outside was rough, between the flea bits and irregularities in the glass.

Still I like this bottle.  It is a good example of an older bottle, even if it is beat up.

This bottle is close to the same age as the coin shown at the top of the post.

In early 1916, a committee composed of bottlers and Company officials met to choose the bottle design. The Root version was the clear winner and The Coca-ColaCompany and the Root Glass Company entered an agreement to have six glass companies across the U.S. use the bottle shape. The contract called for the bottles to be colored with “German Green” which was later called “Georgia Green” in homage to the home state of The Coca-Cola Company. It also called for the name of the city which was placing the glass order to be embossed on the bottom of the bottle... The weight of glass was to be no less than 14.5 ounces, which when filled with the 6.5 ounces of Coca-Cola meant each bottle weighed more than a pound! 

Even though the bottle had gone into production in early 1916, not all bottlers immediately jumped to change out their glass stock... 

(See http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/collectors-columns-collecting-bottles )

Here is a good link for some fine details of dating older Coca Cola bottles.

http://www.fohbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/DatingEarlyCocaColaBottles.pdf

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I have to unravel some more of the puzzle of the gold coin before I have more on that.

Back of the Same Gold Coin.

Better than average circulated shape for sure.  It must have been removed from circulation very early.

I don't know the story on that but am trying to get some clues and put it together.

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At the top of the first blog page I added a Featured Post.  There are times when I think a post should get more visibility than it got.  That is the case with this Featured Post.  You can click on it and view it from the first page.

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Just a two to three foot surf today, with decent tides.  The surf will decrease the next couple of days.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net